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Massive Obamacare fraud uncovered.
In 2023, 1 in 3 subsidy recipients—$21B total—used Social Security numbers that didn’t match IRS records. Fake applicants in 2024–25? Most were approved.
And yet, Congress wants to expand subsidies with no limits or safeguards. pic.twitter.com/skbd0H432w
— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) December 5, 2025
Ed: The deuce you say. Why, we’ve never seen that before, except in [checks notes] every other federal giveaway program ever invented. The COVID subsidies are a particularly galling example, since we warned loudly that the haste to pass these programs practically begged for fraudsters to pick taxpayers’ pockets. I’d say ‘live and learn,’ but no one’s learning.
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WSJ: Massive fraud blamed on dozens of Minnesota residents of Somali descent has jumped to national attention, with House Republicans launching an investigation into how pervasive corruption in the state’s social-services system was allowed to fester under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s administration.
The probe by the GOP-led House Oversight Committee deepens scrutiny of the scandal in Minnesota, where federal prosecutors say the fraud exceeded $1 billion and that dozens of people bilked taxpayers by setting up scam social-services companies. Close to 60 defendants have been convicted, and federal prosecutors last week charged the 78th person in a prong of the cases that authorities called “the largest Covid-19 fraud scheme in the country.”
Ed: Speak of the devil! This is the same problem on a narrower scale. Congress keeps setting up programs like this that enables grifters to rob us blind. How long will it go before we draw the obvious conclusion that it’s intentional?
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After seeing the videos and her own staffers details…how do 11% still vote for her and 35% have a positive view? No wonder California is a mess…It’s the voters. https://t.co/PUieqa2RXF
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) December 5, 2025
Ed: Forget it, Jake. It’s Californiatown. This is actually on brand for the Golden State.
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Fox News: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it has rounded up at least a dozen criminal illegal immigrants — including “child sex offenders, domestic abusers, and violent gang members” — during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) latest “worst of the worst” list includes five Somali nationals, six from Mexico and one from El Salvador.
“Sanctuary policies and politicians like Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowed these pedophiles, domestic terrorists, and gang members to roam the streets and terrorize Americans,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
Ed: It’s not just Californiatown. It’s also Minnedishu, as my friend @sumergomonstro called it on Twitter. It’s also Illinois, Oregon, Washington, New York, and so on.
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It’s an accurate assessment, and absolutely belongs in the National Security Strategy. https://t.co/5mlwYAZ2No
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) December 5, 2025
Ed: Agreed. Europe thinks it can dissipate its cultural and civilizational assets without consequence. At some point, what Europe is changing into will no longer be worth defending. The UK and France are approaching that point now, and Germany is not far behind. Ironically, eastern Europe and the Baltic states may be the most reliable nations for the defense of Western values, and we’ll need the UK and Germany for that defense – an amazing reversal in just a few short decades.
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NBC News: Her son’s school, like many in the Los Angeles Unified School District and across the country, provided an iPad to each student for use throughout the school day, even during band and gym class.
The iPad program, which ramped up during the Covid pandemic, was meant to give kids a technological leg up and help track students who are falling behind. But Byock said her son revealed that he used the iPad during school to watch YouTube and participate in Fortnite video game battles.
“It makes no sense to me,” Byock said. “We’ve banned the cellphones, but it doesn’t matter, because the kids are using the school-issued devices in exactly the same way.”
Ed: Schools are handing out toys to every student and are shocked, shocked when they play on them rather than focus attention on learning. This is sheer idiocy.
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Jared Cooney Horvath at The Free Press: Today, children are spending ever more hours in classrooms, yet they’re developing more slowly. …
When parents hear that schools are increasingly embracing digital technologies, many picture something familiar from their childhoods: a few dusty desktops in the library, a weekly typing lesson, maybe a chance to paste clip art into MS Paint if the teacher was feeling generous. Whatever our feelings toward computers, one thing was clear: They were always peripheral to our education.
But that image is now dangerously outdated.
Over the past two decades, educational technology has exploded from a niche supplement into a $400 billion juggernaut woven into nearly every corner of schooling. More than half of all students now use a computer at school for one to four hours each day, and a full quarter spend more than four hours on screens during a typical seven-hour school day. Researchers estimate that less than half of this time is spent actually learning, with students drifting off-task up to 38 minutes of every hour when on classroom devices.
Ed: Again, these results are hardly surprising. We have sold out our students to high-tech shareholders. This is hardly the only problem in American education, but it’s significant, and needs to be addressed. We aren’t teaching kids to become “tech savvy” through these programs; we’re addicting them to their screens.
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Great discussion today w @SenJoniErnst and defense industry leaders about the critical need to deploy the arts as soft power in this war for civilization! @PalantirTech @Oracle @Microsoft pic.twitter.com/59yRCpuybn
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) December 6, 2025
Ed: This is absolutely correct – but we also need to reclaim the meaning of art. John’s songs are a great example of art. A banana duct-taped to a wall may sell for seven figures, but it’s not art in any meaningful sense. That kind of nonsense is counterproductive to the defense of a civilization that has produced magnificent works of art upholding and celebrating its values rather than nihilism.
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Free Beacon: Harvard Law School visiting professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea—who told authorities he fired a pellet rifle outside a synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur “to hunt rats”—agreed to self-deport after ICE arrested him Wednesday.
Gouvea—who founded a Brazilian think tank that “led the largest anti-violence campaign in the country, resulting in the enactment of the federal Gun Control Act of 2003,” according to Harvard—was first arrested on Oct. 2 by the Brookline Police Department immediately following the shooting. Harvard placed Gouvea on administrative leave days later, and on Nov. 13 he pleaded guilty to illegally using the air rifle.
The incident prompted the State Department to revoke his temporary non-immigrant visa on Oct. 16, leading to the ICE arrest. He volunteered to leave the United States rather than risk deportation, ending his stretch of serving at elite American institutions like Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Ed: Good riddance. Harvard Law should be ashamed of itself … but won’t be.
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BREAKING: In a stunning statement, Democrat Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty claims the DOJ is attempting “to politicize a sexual assault prosecution to inflict further harm on our entire Somali community.”
In the statement, Moriarty defends her office’s failure to secure… https://t.co/Uo2EpySxgL pic.twitter.com/ZgJ8KkXCn7
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) December 5, 2025
In the statement, Moriarty defends her office’s failure to secure any prison time for serial rapist Abdimahat Mohamed.
Ed: Moriarty is a disgrace as a DA. The feds stepped in on this new case because Moriarty’s office let Mohamed off with plea deals on two previous sexual assaults, one on a 15-year-old girl, who was raped at gunpoint. If Moriarty had refused to plead down these cases, this rapist would have been in prison rather than free to victimize more women.
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Jerusalem Post: Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday criticized the Lebanese government’s decision to send a civilian delegate to the ceasefire committee, calling it a “free concession” to Israel and a clear violation of previous government positions.
On Wednesday, both Israel and Lebanon sent civilian envoys to a military committee monitoring their ceasefire, marking an expansion in the scope of talks between the two nations.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said on Friday that ceasefire talks with Israel are primarily aimed at stopping Israeli hostilities on Lebanese territory, after the Netanyahu’s office said it seeks economic cooperation.
Ed: The Israelis want to put pressure on Aoun to comply with the terms of the ceasefire by disarming Hezbollah and complying with UN Security Council Resolution 1701. Aoun is hoping to stretch out the timeline by engaging Israel on cooperation, but both Netanyahu and Donald Trump are losing patience with Aoun on compliance.
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I looked this up because I thought it had to be a joke. There really is such a thing as doll moms … I don’t even know where to go with this.
And it’s not just one doll in this video.
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) December 5, 2025
Ed: We’re doomed.
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WSJ: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi said they have agreed to part ways following new revelations and allegations about an affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him.
Nuzzi and the magazine said in a statement that they “mutually agreed, in the best interest of the magazine, to let her contract expire at the end of the year.” …
Nuzzi signed on earlier this year as Vanity Fair’s West Coast editor. It was a short-term contract that expires at the end of the year, according to people familiar with its terms. The publication said at the time that she would be focusing on “events, industries, and culture of the Pacific region, as well as writing for the magazine.”
Ed: What in the world were VF and Condé Nast thinking? And what changed? VF probably hoped to ride some momentum from Nuzzi’s memoir, which had pretensions of Joan Didion-esque (or at least Nora Ephron-esque) cultural relevance. Instead, it turns out that Nuzzi’s prose is every bit as reliable as her journalistic ethics, and VF ended up with considerable egg on its collective face.
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And let’s not even get into what would become of Rhoda Morgenstern
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 5, 2025
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